Battery problems?

[Ray Ooievaar]

Hello Everyone,Great forum,glad to be here.
Got a question about batteries,I shipped a bunch of Vogue 808 from China,been having several battery failures with mine and with a few customers units,I don't fill my cartomizers when attached to the battery,but I do carry them in my pocket with them attached.Have had a few batteries die on me,won't charge on the PCC or work on the cartomizer,tried cleaning them,didn't help.
Any tips or suggestions to avoid this problem in the future would be greatly appreciated.
Ray

 

[dormouse]

1 - If any juice gets into the battery it can short it. Manuals are harder to damage or kill but if they have an open hole in the end then enough juice can still kill them. If you are extremely careful cleaning up your cartos after adding juice they will rarely drip more that a part of a drop. But I never store my carto models carto-up in my pocket - I store them carto-down so if a bit of juice comes out it will go into the drip tip I use as a mouthpiece or in my pocket, not into the battery.

2 - screwing things on too far can depress the centerpost of the battery to the point where it no longer contacts the center post of the cartomizer. Never screw anything on further than just far enough to contact and electrically connect and that includes cartos and chargers

3 - do not use cartos or atomizers lower than 2.5 ohms on slim batteries - you can damage the batteries. Slim batteries use 2.5 to 3 ohms. If you want to use lower ohms buy a 450mah+ model (fat battery or mod)

4 - always wipe clean the threaded end of the battery before putting a battery on the charger or in a PCC. if you don't then a juice film will build up and you will get poor electrical contact with the charger. I use a tissue or my t-shirt.

5 - I know you can connect USB charging cables to a PC's USB but I don't. I feel safer using a separate USB to AC that outputs 5v and at least 500mA per USB port. Some people have killed PC-charged equipment by getting a static shock on their keyboard. And obviously, do not use unpowered USB hubs to charge batteries

 

[Ray Ooievaar]

Great stuff,thanks,didn't know about the USB thing,gotta pass that one on.

 

[brad33]

WOW THANKS FOR THAT BIT OF INFO ON usb CONCERNS!